Michael, There are some pre-existing libraries that could give you a headstart in this work :-
tools.reader - can help you parse Clojure source - https://github.com/clojure/tools.reader tools.namespace can help you parse and manage graphs of namespaces - https://github.com/clojure/tools.namespace tools.analyzer can help you resolve symbols - https://github.com/clojure/jvm.tools.analyzer kibit - can help you detect non-idiomatic code - https://github.com/jonase/kibit Each of these is in active development but you should consider using them in their current state if you can. Regards, Malcolm On Thursday, 18 April 2013 07:52:57 UTC+1, Mikera wrote: > > On Tuesday, 9 April 2013 00:05:35 UTC+8, michael holzer wrote: >> >> >> And now to the part that will be hopefully of broader interest for every >> Clojure user: >> What do you expect from a refactoring library or from an IDE providing >> refactoring tools? >> > > There are a bunch of operations that would be very useful to support: > rename var, fix namespace aliases etc. all the usual stuff. > > But more important than the actual refactoring operations are IMHO the > warnings that the IDE provides. Refactoring activity often causes you to > break previously true assumptions (e.g. changing the arity of a function by > adding a new parameter, or changing the type of a parameter). Automatically > detecting these and providing a warning would be a huge boost to > productivity: Otherwise you will only detect the problem when something > fails at runtime / test time and you might get left with a particularly > nasty stack trace to debug. > > I wrote a bit more on this topic in an old blog post you may find > interesting: > > http://clojurefun.wordpress.com/2012/09/06/something-i-still-love-about-java/ > > Apart from that, I think there is some interesting Clojure specific > refactoring you might do, e.g. warn on unidiomatic style and offer > conversion to a better alternative. I'm thinking of things like: > > (let [a (some-condition)] (if a (do .......))) > => > (when-let [a (some-condition)] ......) > > -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
